Taras, sired by our own boy Brut, did well at Alpacapalooza in April.  He's growing very well and we're sure he's got an exciting future ahead of him.

2008-

November

We finished our first season at the Redmond Market and did wonderfully well.  We met so many nice people at the market - vendors and customers.  We're definitely going to attend next year in addition to the festivals and art shows we're going to shoot for.

We're going to be hosting a once a month seminar on alpaca ownership here at the farm so attendees can get hands on experience with a variety of animals

April-October

In September the last three of our 2008 crias were born -

Olga - a perfect little huacaya female from Iraida and Quinn 3BA made her appearance:

Two days later Teemo arrived - Talaris and Quinn 3BA - note the curls in his fiber.

Finally, two days after that Taras made his debut - Miss Phoenix and our boy Cumbi's Brut -

We're at the Redmond Market and have been doing amazingly well.  The season is to the end of October and then we'll start up with the Ballard Sunday Market.  We don't know if we'll do every Sunday.  A lot will depend on the traffic to the store during the holiday season, but it's always good to have options.

The Creelman is finally working.  We got it to actually knit and the next step is to see if we can get the ribber working:

Tim is also attending a weekend CSM (Circular Sock Machine) conference in April.  His goal is to get one pair of socks done per week to have for sale in the store.

Our first '08 cria, Daecia, is meeting and greeting everyone who comes to the Farm and stealing hearts every chance she gets.

2007 -

As part of the fiber sales effort the farm began accepting credit cards in early summer.  The results have been mixed so far.

We had four crias this year, all boys.  So that's six boys out of seven total born since 2005.

October 2006

Starfighter and Brut did the farm proud at Alpacamania.  They both got first in their halter classes with very nice comments from judge Wade Gease.

Brut's fleece won his class and Alex's fleece was judged Reserve Color Suri Fleece of the show!

Alex's fleece ribbons                                 Brut's fleece ribbon

August 24, 2006

Talaris's first cria, Evgeny, was born.  Except for the white spot on his chin he's solid brown.  His fiber is buttery soft. 

         July 21, 2005 - Alpaca Ranchers of the NorthWest's Level II show

 CTA Alex - 11 month old light fawn/beige Suri (ARI 1378115) took first in halter under Jude Anderson.  First in a fleece class of five and Champion Suri Color Champion over all with an over all score of 81.25 as awarded by Nard Mullan.

Cumbi's Brut - two year old medium fawn Suri (ARI 1306668) took first in halter and second in his fleece class.

That's Edyk in all the pictures - he showed the Suri boys in halter and proudly discussed Alex's fleece ribbons.

September 2004 -

We brought our herd home.